Boris Mikhailovich Kloss ( rus, Борис Михайлович Клосс, p=bɐˈrʲis mʲɪˈxɐlaɪvʲɪtɕ klos; born 19 December 1932) is a Russian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, source critic, specialist in

palaeography Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

and archeography, a

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, Doctor of History (1989); head of the History of Religion and Church Centre, Honorary Doctor of the European University (2003), member of the International Association of the Old Slavic Studies (1992). He studied under

Andrey Kolmogorov Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Sovi ...

, Lev Cherepnin, Militsa Nechkina. The Nikon Chronicle and other Russian Chronicles of the 16-17 centuries

Kloss was born in Moscow in the family of a military man. He graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of the

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1956. In 1958 he started working for the USSR Institute of Automatics. Since 1971 he worked at the USSR Institute of History under the Russian Academy of Sciences. He completed the

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in the topic ''The Nikon Chronicle and the Russian Chronicles of the 16th-17th centuries''. In 1980-1990 he simultaneously taught at the Moscow State University, the

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; russian: Московский Физико-Технический институт, also known as PhysTech), is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares speciali ...

and

Russian State University for the Humanities The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH, RGGU; russian: Росси́йский госуда́рственный гуманита́рный университе́т, РГГУ, translit=Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universit ...

. He became a renowned specialist in

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of ...

literature, specifically in Russian hagiography. He lectured in various universities of the United States, Poland, Norway, Russia.

Publications

* ''The Nikon Chronicle and the Russian Chronicles of the 16th-17th centuries'' (russian: Никоновский свод и русские летописи XVI-XVII веков), 1980 * ''Life of St. Sergius of Radonezh'' (russian: Житие Сергия Радонежского: Рукописная традиция), 1998 * ''On the Russian Hagiography of the 14th-16th centuries'' (russian: Очерки по истории русской агиографии XIV–XVI вв.), 2001 * ''On the Origin of the name of Russia'' (russian: О происхождении названия «Россия»), 2012 * ''

Chernyshevsky Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky ( – ) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism. He was ...

at the Head of Revolutionaries of 1861'' (russian: Чернышевский во главе революционеров 1861 года), 1981 * Editor of the modern edition of the ''

Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (, abbr. ''PSRL'') is a series of published volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federati ...

''.

References

1932 births 20th-century Russian historians Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow State University alumni Soviet historians Russian palaeographers Academic staff of Moscow State University Living people {{Russia-historian-stub